This page includes work on understanding the social make-up of Britain. This is by no means an exhaustive or even comprehensive list but is a starting place. To be added to over time. Please feel free to suggest other sources.

Many of these sources are also provided through the Dat4NR hub (http://www.data4nr.net )

• ONS Neighbourhood Statistics (NeSS) : http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/
• ONS Official Labour Market Statistics (NOMIS) : https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/Default.asp
• Indices of Multiple Deprivation (2007) : http://www.communities.gov.uk/communities/neighbourhoodrenewal/deprivation/deprivation07/
• Economic Deprivation Index (2008): http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/communities/trackingneighbourhoods2008
• Local index of child well being: http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/communities/childwellbeing2009
• The National Classification of Census Output Areas http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/area_classification/

Older but may still be of interest:

• Health, Place and Society (2002) http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/publications/healthplacesociety/index.html
• Poverty, Wealth and Place in Britain, 1968 - 2005, publication:  http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/research/transformation/utpp_downloads.html , online maps: http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/research/transformation/maps/index.html
• A New Social Atlas of Britain (1995) http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/publications/new_social_atlas/index.html

Understanding geodemographics

• A Proposed Quantitative Comparative Analysis for Geodemographic Classifications (2009) http://www.yhpho.org.uk/resource/item.aspx?RID=10170CASA Working Paper 127 - Comparing Classifications: Some Preliminary Speculations on an Appropriate Scale for Neighbourhood Analysis with Reference to Geodemographic Information Systems
  http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/publications/workingPaperDetail.asp?ID=127
• CASA Working Paper 134 - Creating Open Source Geodemographic Classifications for Higher Education Applications http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/publications/workingPaperDetail.asp?ID=134

Society, Spatial

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